Cannot Use Syms Function, "Error using mupadmex Error in MuPAD command"

Hi,

I am using trial Matlab 2017a on my MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2016, OSX 10.12.5).

And I just found that the syms function cannot work. The command I input and returned information is as below: Trial>> syms x Error using mupadmex Error in MuPAD command:

Error in sym>cell2ref (line 1308) S = mupadmex(y);

Error in sym>tomupad (line 1246) S = cell2ref(numeric2cellstr(x));

Error in sym (line 199) S.s = tomupad(x);

Error in syms (line 192) toDefine = sym(zeros(1, 0));

Any solution for this problem? Thank you.

PS: Trial>> ver ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MATLAB Version: 9.2.0.556344 (R2017a) MATLAB License Number: DEMO Operating System: Mac OS X Version: 10.12.5 Build: 16F73 Java Version: Java 1.7.0_75-b13 with Oracle Corporation Java HotSpot™ 64-Bit Server VM mixed mode ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MATLAB Version 9.2 (R2017a) Simulink Version 8.9 (R2017a) Communications System Toolbox Version 6.4 (R2017a) Computer Vision System Toolbox Version 7.3 (R2017a) Control System Toolbox Version 10.2 (R2017a) Curve Fitting Toolbox Version 3.5.5 (R2017a) DSP System Toolbox Version 9.4 (R2017a) Database Toolbox Version 7.1 (R2017a) Global Optimization Toolbox Version 3.4.2 (R2017a) Image Acquisition Toolbox Version 5.2 (R2017a) Image Processing Toolbox Version 10.0 (R2017a) Instrument Control Toolbox Version 3.11 (R2017a) Neural Network Toolbox Version 10.0 (R2017a) Optimization Toolbox Version 7.6 (R2017a) Parallel Computing Toolbox Version 6.10 (R2017a) Signal Processing Toolbox Version 7.4 (R2017a) Simulink Control Design Version 4.5 (R2017a) Stateflow Version 8.9 (R2017a) Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox Version 11.1 (R2017a) Symbolic Math Toolbox Version 7.2 (R2017a) System Identification Toolbox Version 9.6 (R2017a)

And I tried the commands: restoredefaultpath rehash toolboxcache

but they did not help.

[Bharat Kanwar]

I am also having the same problem. While stepping through the sym.m file, it seems that the string parameter x for tomupad() is actually an empty 1 by 0 cell which is causing the error later on since the mupadmex function requires a string input. I'm not sure if there's any clear way to fix this. My last ditch effort will be to reinstall matlab and hope the issue fixes itself. Can someone else please look into this?

Answer 1

[Nikhil Jayswal]

Actually, don't do that. It hung my system. But found the solution too. Rename the libfreetype.so files in /MATLAB installation dir/bin/glnxa64 to whatever you like. I found this solution here: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/57948 and https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1078610-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-.html?sid=ab27c1ca8e1927691858595185e18284

[Abdullah Al Mahmud]

This works. Thanks

Answer 2

[Nikhil Jayswal]

I am having the same problem myself, all of a sudden.

Answer 3

[Nikhil Jayswal]

I am on a Linux System (Manjaro Linux 17). Fixed the issue by downgrading the fontconfig package. I noticed an error message in the terminal that gave me the idea. Hope it helps you.

Answer 4

[Yiqian Qian]

same problem